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Published on: April 13, 2018
Aneuploidy and complex genomic rearrangements in cancer evolution
Toby M Baker1,2, Sara Waise1,3, Maxime Tarabichi1,4
1The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK.
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Mutational processes that alter large genomic regions occur frequently in developing tumors. They range from simple copy number gains and losses to the shattering and reassembly of entire chromosomes. These catastrophic events, such as chromothripsis, chromoplexy and the formation of extrachromosomal DNA, affect the expression of many genes and therefore have a substantial effect on the fitness of the cells in which they arise. In this review, we cover large genomic alterations, the mechanisms that cause them and their effect on tumor development and evolution.
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